Down Syndrome

Citations

1. Chun-Hui Tsai A, et al. (2011). Chromosomal disorders: Trisomies section of Genetics and dysmorphology. In WW Hay Jr et al., eds., Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Pediatrics, 20th ed., pp. 1037–1038. New York: McGraw-Hill.

2. Cunningham FG, et al. (2010). Prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy. In Williams Obstetrics, 23rd ed., pp. 287–311. New York: McGraw-Hill Medical.

3. Saitta SC, Zackai EH (2005). Specific chromosome disorders in newborns. In HW Taeusch et al., eds., Avery's Diseases of the Newborn, 8th ed., pp. 204–215. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders.

4. Descartes M, Carroll AJ (2007). Cytogenetics. In RM Kliegman et al., eds., Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 18th ed., pp. 502–517. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.

Other Works Consulted

• American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, and American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (2002). A consensus statement on health care transitions for young adults with special health care needs. Pediatrics, 110(6): 1304–1306.

• Cohen WI (2009). Down syndrome: Care of the child and family. In WB Carey et al., eds., Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, 4th ed., pp. 234–245. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.

• Committee on Genetics, American Academy of Pediatrics (2001, reaffirmed 2007). Health supervision for children with Down syndrome. Pediatrics, 107(2): 442–449.

• Driscoll DD, Gross SJ (2008). First trimester diagnosis and screening for fetal aneuploidy. Genetics in Medicine, 10(1): 73–75.

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